When Campbell soup decided to go kosher it certainly made waves in the Jewish community. Although it was but one type of soup, namely their "vegetarian vegetable soup" that now had kosher supervision it was certainly a good start. I had used this soup on a variety of occasions when baking it with my gefitle fish. The OU has announced that Campbells Soup had dropped it's supervision. I figured Campbell's decided it didn't pay off and decided to drop the kosher concept. I was surprised to see they didn't drop the idea but moved to another kosher supervision company: half moon K. There is quite a difference between the reliability of these to hechshers and I'm sure the new supervision is quite less expensive so that may explain the switch. At this point I will have to find something else to take it's place.
Saturday, October 28, 2006
Campbell Soup: Kosher?
When Campbell soup decided to go kosher it certainly made waves in the Jewish community. Although it was but one type of soup, namely their "vegetarian vegetable soup" that now had kosher supervision it was certainly a good start. I had used this soup on a variety of occasions when baking it with my gefitle fish. The OU has announced that Campbells Soup had dropped it's supervision. I figured Campbell's decided it didn't pay off and decided to drop the kosher concept. I was surprised to see they didn't drop the idea but moved to another kosher supervision company: half moon K. There is quite a difference between the reliability of these to hechshers and I'm sure the new supervision is quite less expensive so that may explain the switch. At this point I will have to find something else to take it's place.
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Dude - this is like so two months ago
By the time the OU had made their announcement the cans with the Half moon k was already on the shelves.
I had actually discussed it back then
business is business
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2006_09_03_atowncrier_archive.html#115748307872640146
http://atowncrier.blogspot.com/2006_09_03_atowncrier_archive.html#115757345613330861
I also got the alert a while back but only today did I see the half moon on the shelves in my supermarket.
Half-moon K claims to be based on the principle of not commercializing Kashrus. On the basis of that, I would trust their Hechsher more than the OU. That is, I would if I kept kosher, which I do not. Yum Yum bacon.
ברוך אתה יהוה אלהינו חי העולמים מתיר איסורים
All Hechsher fees are Shochad.
i saw the half moon k cans right away - it was eerie because it was the day after the news hit at the beginning of september and the cans were already printed.
there was speculation then about the departure from amercan soups inc. of a jewish ceo.
In any event, this is all about how much money the companies are willing to pay out for a the certification..
The problem however here is they are using a certification that is not exactly widely accpeted. They would be better of with a chof-k or even an OK Lab hecsher but those are certainly pricier. At least that's my guess.
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